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Macy Cybernetics Conferences

10 conferences from 1946 to 1953

… there is a lack of comprehensive documentation on the Macy Conferences.

This summary is not claimed to provide a comprehensive account of the conferences. It is simply a collated set of basic facts along with such illustrative tidbits as can be gleaned from Heims' The Cybernetics Group, Dupuy’s Mechanization of the Mind, and other sources.

Part 1 of this summary offers a chronologically-ordered listing of the Macy Conferences, the attendees involved, and the activities that occurred.

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